The Invisible Man Appears (1949)
透明人間現わる
There is no good or evil in science, but it can be used for good or evil purposes!
A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who wish to use the formula to rob a priceless jewel.
- Date of release
- 1949-09-26
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (18)
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction, Crime
- Director
- Nobuo Adachi
- Collection
- The Invisible Man (Daiei) Collection
Casting
- Chizuru Kitagawa — Machiko Nakazato
- Takiko Mizunoe — Ryûko Mizuki
- Daijiro Natsukawa — Kyôsuke Segi
- Mitsusaburō Ramon — Inspector Matsubara
- Ryūnosuke Tsukigata — Kenzô Nakazato
- Shōsaku Sugiyama — Ichirô Kawabe
- Kanji Koshiba — Shunji Kurokawa / The Invisible Man
- Kichijirō Ueda — Otoji Sugimoto
- Hiroshi Ueda — Nagayoshi Tanimoto
- Shōzō Nanbu — Umeo Miyazawa
- Shinobu Araki — Yoshihira Hatanaka
- Saburo Date — Keizô Sasatani
Interesting facts
The Invisible Man Appears is a 1949 Japanese science fiction tokusatsu film directed by Nobuo Adachi, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film was loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1897 The Invisible Man and produced by Daiei Film, the film stars Kanji Koshiba, Chizuru Kitagawa, Takiko Mizunoe, Daijirō Natsukawa, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, and Kichijiro Ueda.
Production
The film was initially tentatively titled Invisible Demon by Hisashi Okuda. According to Okuda, When he showed the plan to Eiji Tsuburaya, who had just been expelled from public office, Tsuburaya promised, "I am willing to cooperate because I believe this is worth considering."
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